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REVIEW: All About Skin: Short Fiction by Women of Color

    At the Boundaries of Belief Review of All about Skin: Short Fiction by Women of Color, ed. Jina Ortiz and Rochelle Spencer Review by Sarah Mantilla Griffin   In her 1993 Nobel Lecture in...

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TFW Associate Editor Mecca Jamilah Sullivan Publishes Blue Talk and Love

Mecca Jamilah Sullivan TFW would like to congratulate Associate Editor Mecca Jamilah Sullivan, Ph.D. on the publication of her new short story collection entitled Blue Talk and Love (Riverdale Avenue...

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TFW salutes Collective Member Aimee Meredith Cox on the publication of her...

“In Shapeshifters Aimee Meredith Cox explores how young Black women in a Detroit homeless shelter contest stereotypes, critique their status as partial citizens, and negotiate poverty, racism, and...

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A Mirror in the Sky: Camille A. Brown’s Black Girl: Linguistic Play

  As I was watching Camille A. Brown and her dancers in Brown’s latest work, Black Girl: Linguistic Play during a run through on Sunday afternoon I kept thinking, “so, this is what that feels like.” I...

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Ben Fields Is One Problem and The Silent Black Male Administrator Might Be...

By now you have probably viewed the widely shared video that surfaced Monday capturing former Richland County Senior Deputy Ben Fields questioning, grabbing, slamming and throwing across the room an...

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The Making of a Bad Ass Black Feminist: A Conversation with C. Nicole Mason...

Writing can be a transgressive and political act. At its best, a well-crafted and finely told story can point the reader in the direction of her healing, her power and her connection to the world and...

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For black women who’ve considered extreme measures when working out isn’t enuf

Yesterday, in awe, many of us watched recaps of Teyana Taylor’s dance performance in Kanye West’s “Fade” music video. To be sure, sis can dance. But it was her body that captivated so many of us, and...

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a place to live

Content Notice: This is part of the #LoveWITHAccountability forum on The Feminist Wire. The purpose of this forum and the #LoveWITHAccountability project is to prioritize child sexual abuse, healing,...

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The Coiled Spring First Grader Deep Inside: Sexual Violence and Restorative...

Content Notice: This article is part of the #LoveWITHAccountability forum on The Feminist Wire. The purpose of this forum and the #LoveWITHAccountability project is to prioritize child sexual abuse,...

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#BlackSkinWhiteSin: From Pernicious Editing to Audacious Rescripting...

In her Introduction to Skin Deep, Spirit Strong: The Black Female Body in American Culture (2002), an edited collection of essays engaging the hyper-presence of the black female nude in colonial...

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